Past events

Join us at the next workshop of the Research Partnership in Intermedia Studies between the University of Edinburgh and Meiji University, exploring translations and adaptations of a range of media.

Join us in-person for this intermediality seminar with Professor Barnaby Ralph (Seikei University, Tokyo) and Professor Fuhito Endo (Seikei University, Tokyo) on the topic of interdisciplinary perspectives.

Join us for this in-person talk from Sébastien Laurier on his time in the Pitcairn Islands and how it inspired his book, 'La Bounty à Pitcairn. Mais que sont les révoltés devenus ?'.

Join us in person for this year's first DRSS seminar by Professor Patrick O'Donovan (University College Cork) on the relation between architecture and literature in modernist fiction.

Join us on Zoom for a free seminar by Dr Aida Vallejo (University of Edinburgh/University of the Basque Country) on the international ecosystem of documentary film festivals, their different profiles and cultural dynamics and the networks developed around them.

Join us on Zoom for a conversation with Professor Ben Bollig on his two recent books Moving Verses and The Poetry-Film Nexus in Latin America.

Join us on Zoom for a seminar by Professor Pascale Aebischer (University of Exeter) on made-for-digital live productions during the Covid-19 pandemic and the re-imagination of the relationship between audience and performers.

Join us at the inaugural workshop of the Research Partnership in Intermedia Studies between the University of Edinburgh and Meiji University, exploring relationships between images, music and texts.

Join us on Zoom for a free seminar by Dr Alison Peirse (University of Leeds) on 1980s horror filmmaker Jackie Kong, as a way of critically revisiting our histories of horror cinema and working towards a feminist historiography.

Join us on Teams for the second event in our DRSS seminar series on Decolonising Minds and Methods. This seminar's theme is 'intermediality'. Guest speakers: Dr Emanuela Patti and Dr Inma Sánchez-García.

*Rescheduled* Join us on Zoom for a free 'in conversation' event with writer-director Gerard Johnson.

'Stanley Cavell, Scepticism, and Gender in Contemporary Film and Television.' A free seminar by guest speaker Dr Michelle Devereaux (University of Warwick).

'Reenactment, Memory, and Witnessing: Cinematic Ethics in The Look of Silence and S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine'. A free seminar by guest speaker Professor Robert Sinnerbrink (Macquarie University).

A free seminar, as part of the Edinburgh Film Conversation series, by guest speaker Carol Morley (British writer-director).

'It’s A Kind of Magic: Making The Original Highlander.' A free seminar by guest speaker Jonathan Melville.

'Film History's Vanishing Lady Act: The Case of Mary McCall.' A free seminar by guest speaker Professor J.E. Smyth (University of Warwick).